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Linus Says Rust Formatting is "Bass-Ackwards Garbage"
"[Rustfmtcheck] is just ANNOYING. It's automated tooling that is literally making bad decisions for the maintainability," says Linux creator, Linus Torvalds.
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Consider this...
Lunduke has had his BBS running for years on a DOS based system. He has not been hacked...
Linux has been running for years...it has more holes than swiss cheese...
Why is it then that everyone proclaims this is the "Year of the Linux Desktop?"
Should we not then be proclaiming that "This is the Year of the Dos Desktop?"
We know that DOS is not hackable...why not use that??
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